KANCHANJUNGA

APARTMENT
Charles Correa
Sustainable Interior Design
Naveen Jamal
201110147
OVERVIEW
▪ Introduction
▪ About Charles Correa
▪ Innovation
▪ Pathway Study
▪ Transparency
▪ Interiors & Views
 INTRODUCTION
▪ Architect: Charles Correa
▪ Location : Bombay, India
▪ Date: 1970 – 1983
▪ Building Type: Skyscraper multifamily housing
▪ Construction System: Concrete
▪ Climate: Hot
▪ Style: Modern
 ABOUT CHARLES CORREA
▪ Indian architect, Urban planner and an activist.
▪ Born: September 1, 1930(Age 83)
▪ Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Michigan
▪ Awards: Royal Gold Medal, 7th Aga Khan Award for
Architecture, Gold Medal of UIA
ORIENTATION
▪ In Mumbai, buildings are ideally orientated east-west to catch the
prevailing sea-breezes, and views out to the Arabian Sea on one side
and the harbour on the other: the same directions as the hot afternoon
sun and heavy monsoon rains.

▪ Old bungalows solved these problems by wrapping a protective layer of

verandas

▪ Kanchanjunga apartments are located south-west.

ORIENTATION
INNOVATION
▪ Interlock of four different apartment typologies varying from 3 to 6
bedrooms each.
▪ Smaller displacements of levels.
▪ Differentiated between the external earth filled terraces and the
internal elevated living volumes.
▪ Effectively shield these high rise units from the effects of both the sun
and monsoon rains.
▪ Achieved by providing the tower with relatively deep, garden verandas,
suspended in the air.
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
▪ The building is a 32 story reinforced concrete structure with 6.3m
cantilevered open terraces.
▪ The central core is composed of lifts and provides the main structural
element for resisting lateral loads.
▪ The central core was constructed ahead of the main structure by slip
method of construction.
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
MATERIALS & COLOURS
▪ The garden terraces of Kanchanjunga
apartments are actually a modern
interpretation of a feature of the
traditional Indian bungalow; Veranda.

▪ In India and other Asian countries, one

finds a predominance of reds and yellows.
PATHWAY STUDY
PATHWAY STUDY
TRANSPARENCY
INTERIORS & VIEWS
INTERIORS & VIEWS
REFERENCE
▪ http://www.ctbuh.org/Events/Conferences/Mumbai2010/TechnicalTour
s/Mumbai2010Kanchanjunga/tabid/1497/language/en-US/Default.aspx
▪ http://www.archdaily.com/151844/ad-classics-kanchanjunga-
apartments-charles-correa/
▪ http://identityhousing.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/charles-correa-
kanchanjunga-apartments-cumballa-hill-mumbai-1970-1983/
▪ http://www.uncubemagazine.com/sixcms/detail.php?id=9567961&artic
leid=art-1370946457952-aad062d0-be7e-4217-bb28-
3724f2b5eefd#!/page7
▪ http://thearchiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/charles-correa-
kanchenjunga-apartments/
THANK YOU